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...Laughs. Well he might have. Baker had long since begun to maneuver outside the Senate as well as in the cloakrooms. For one thing, he had acquired Carole Tyler as his secretary. Back home in Tennessee, she had won a "Miss Loudon County" award, and she was a natural beauty-pageant type -35-26-35. Daughter of a Lenoir City dry-cleaning plant operator, Carole arrived in Washington in 1959, three years later was Baker's private secretary and confidante. As the former she received $8,000 a year, as the latter a lot of laughs and good times...
Carole. One subject of considerable curiosity was Carole Tyler, 24, a shapely (5 ft. 6 in., 35-26-35) Tennessee girl who won the title of "Miss Loudon County" before she turned up in Washington in 1959. Three years later she was Baker's private secretary at $8,000 a year. Chain-smoking, martini-drinking, party-loving Carole also became a favorite in Baker's high-flying circle of acquaintances...
Some top managers take a defeatist stance. Said John Loudon, chief of the Royal Dutch-Shell Group (TIME cover, May 9, 1960): "In the case of research, we may have already reached a state of diminishing returns for our investment...
...Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Vic Damone and Guests Andre Previn, the Limeliters, Dorothy Loudon and others...
...majors simply do not believe in price cutting - which directly slashes their profits - and make common cause in avoiding it whenever possible. Their philosophy is that if one company cuts prices broadly, all will have to follow - and no one will end up with a competitive advantage. Says Loudon: "You can't build your share of the market with price cutting. The way to grow is to build pipelines, service stations, more depots." The result is that, like the auto and the cigarette industries, oildom's giants rarely compete on the basis of price. But they insist that...